Girona doesn’t need to be sold to cyclists anymore. Thanks to all the pros who call it home, the city in northeast Spain has become one of Europe’s premier cycling hubs, and one the biggest beneficiaries of Girona’s booming cycling culture is The Service Course.
Set up in 2016 by former pro Christian Meier and his wife Amber (though now run by another former pro, Australian superstar Simon Gerrans), the custom-bike-shop-cum-bike-rental-service-cum-travel-company-cum-community-hub is supported by a plethora of talent including Kasia Niewiadoma, Michael Woods, Esteban Chaves, George Bennett, Tiffany Cromwell and more. From the Girona store – alongside locations in Nice, Abu Dhabi, Mexico City and Wilmslow – The Service Course hosts a large number of ‘casual’ rides, but more recently it launched an annual weekend
